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Greater Portland continues to experience challenges as the region welcomes more residents and transitions from a small to a large metropolitan area. We highlight government-led and grassroots-led responses to a range of housing challenges, from affordability to displacement to homelessness.

Affordable housing exists in a variety of settings throughout greater Portland. We highlight three different buildings. One focuses on helping people who have experienced homelessness; another provides stability to low-income people and families; and the third houses seniors living on fixed incomes.

In the heart of Oregon City is a beautiful canyon with majestic trees, tumbling creeks and passionate Oregon City neighbors – along with shopping carts and trash. Can it become the region's next great nature park?

The Knoll at Tigard, a 48-unit apartment complex for seniors of modest means, opened April 21 in an area with a high concentration of low-income seniors and a need for affordable housing. Funded in part by Metro's Transit-Oriented Development Program, the four-story, energy efficient building is helping Tigard revitalize and re-green its city center. Learn more about the first housing development built in Tigard's Downtown Urban Renewal District and how it's moving Tigard toward becoming a full spectrum housing city.

Voters in the greater Portland area continue to show broad and strong willingness to support a $500 million bond measure that would add affordable homes in the region, according to a poll conducted at the end of February.

The Metro Council was briefed Tuesday on a proposal for its first round of Equitable Housing and Development Grants. The grants come from a small construction tax that helps pay for planning around greater Portland.

Whether your roots in the region run generations deep or you moved to Oregon last week, you have your own reasons for loving this place – and Metro wants to keep it that way. Help shape the future of the greater Portland region and discover tools, services and places that make life better today.